At The Luxe Diary, we are excited to share the news that Ranim Orouk was announced today, 13 March 2016, as the winning designer of the 2016 Middle East Emergent Designer Prize by Van Cleef & Arpels at their Design Days Dubai booth. In collaboration with Tashkeel and Design Days Dubai, High Jewelry Maison Van Cleef & Arpels will showcase the winning piece entitled Glow, during the fair from 14-18 March 2016.

Orouk says, “Middle East Emergent Designer Prize by Van Cleef & Arpels provides encouragement and support for designers, and I am proud that the design sector here in the UAE provides such opportunities. ”

Orouk’s winning design which responded to the theme of Nature takes the form and function from the sea creature combining the production methods of traditional glassblowing and advanced digital fabrication of 3D printing. Once lit, the transmission of light throughout the piece emphasizes the radiance emitted from a bloom of jellyfish.